I've been a GM for well over 2 decades and only just finished a large 11 year long campaign. I'm currently in the opening phase of what could become my next big campaign but I'm struggling with finding a good map solution.
The situation, its based in the real world (World of Darkness), at first I was thinking of using Google "My Maps" since its going to be encompassing basically the entire planet over the next many years. But it feels like a very tedious app to use, so I was wondering if any one have some experience they can share or products to recommend ?
Some requirements:
- Real World Earth (Not Planet Bob)
- Pins, that either have a plain name or can link to off-site articles
- Zones, where I can say this park is hostile towards vampires. But defined and viewed as geometry shape.
- Road names are important
- Area/City/District names are important
- Need toggle for business names (have a few people in my group that will hyper-focus on "funny" names, and it can easily take 15mins to get back on track)
- If there is a like an "admin view" and a "public view" where I can toggle things on and off for what the public can see it would be awesome!
I have been thinking of using leaflet with a custom plugin to handle "player facing", since I do my campaign notes in Obsidian anyway. I've used it before, but it's not particularly performance friendly sadly.
PS, if someone knows of a better subreddit for this, do let me know in the comments.